From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 18 16:23:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA15923 for current-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:23:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from cabri.obs-besancon.fr (cabri.obs-besancon.fr [193.52.184.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA15916 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:23:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by cabri.obs-besancon.fr (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA00289; Tue, 19 Mar 96 01:25:02 +0100 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 01:25:02 +0100 Message-Id: <9603190025.AA00289@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Cc: mark@grondar.za, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603182208.XAA01030@keltia.freenix.fr> (message from Ollivier Robert on Mon, 18 Mar 1996 23:08:00 +0100 (MET)) Subject: Re: Ok, perl5 is out, but is the menu stuff ok? X-Mailer: Emacs Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Ollivier Robert writes: > It seems that Mark Murray said: >> Perl 4 is rather aged by all accounts. If all anyone is going to >> do when they get FreeBSD is barf and install perl5, is that not an >> indication that we should catch up? > If we want to catch u, then we should ditch Perl 4 from the tree and only > use the Perl 5 port. There are obvious advantages in having at least a part > of Perl in the tree (adduser comes to mind) but: > 1. a full fledged Perl 5 in the tree will be too big IMO, I don't think this is a good argument: - disks are cheap - you already have perl in /usr/bin AND in /usr/local/bin! So removing perl4 and keeping perl5 in /usr/bin will give you more room on your disks :-) > 2. a cut-down Perl 5 will be a nightmare to maintain and will be missing > some useful things like extentions. I agree. The problem I see with extensions is that non standard extensions (eg Tk) will not install in /usr/local. However it may be possible to make the site_perl directory a link /usr/local/something. > If I had to choose between the two, I'd take the former. A full one or > nothing. I'd rather avoid both if possible. Jean-Marc > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net > FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #7: Mon Mar 18 21:28:18 MET 1996 _____________________________________________________________________________ Jean-Marc Zucconi Observatoire de Besancon F 25010 Besancon cedex PGP Key: finger jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr =============================================================================